JohnniHansen

Q: too many albums to see on left side of mac

So I am working on creating and moving albums. The help you have offered is helping. I have so many- using HIDE to give me more room, I can't see what is on the bottom of the list.  How do I create more space or is there a limit? 

MacBook Pro, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on May 27, 2016 11:39 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 27, 2016 11:48 AM in response to JohnniHansen
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    May 27, 2016 11:48 AM in response to JohnniHansen

    Create folders of albums.  For related albums create a folder. You can close the folders to get many albums out of the way.

    You can nest the folders, so you can collapse large sections of your list of albums at one.

     

    For example:  When I click the disclosure triangle to the left of "Maintenance", all albums inside will be hidden.

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  • by JohnniHansen,

    JohnniHansen JohnniHansen May 27, 2016 12:49 PM in response to léonie
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    May 27, 2016 12:49 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks the use of folders and nesting helped a bunch.  I played around with it on my own. Still trying to find lost photos. Any suggestions to that? I turned back on photo stream and re-read all the iCloud information.

     

    Know how to go into a back up looking for them? They were taken around March 30th 2016  I deleted them trying to figure out how to do albums.

     

    Thank you

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 27, 2016 1:48 PM in response to JohnniHansen
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    May 27, 2016 1:48 PM in response to JohnniHansen
    Know how to go into a back up looking for them? They were taken around March 30th 2016  I deleted them trying to figure out how to do albums.

    What kind of backup do you have? If it is Time Machine, restore your Photos Library from the Time Machine backup to an external drive.  In Time Machine go back far enough in time to a moment before you deleted the photos.

    Before  you launch Time Machine, select the folder with your Photos Library in the Finder, and with this folder selected enter Time Machine. In the Timeline to the right click on a date around the time you want to restore the photos from. select the library and click "Restore to" create a restored version on an external drive.

    Then double click the restored library to open it in Photos.

     

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  • by JohnniHansen,

    JohnniHansen JohnniHansen May 27, 2016 2:01 PM in response to JohnniHansen
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    May 27, 2016 2:01 PM in response to JohnniHansen

    The pic you added was helpful. I don't know what program is used to back up. It is supposed to be done in iCloud.  I see nothing on mine under finder.file:

     

    ( hey I figured that out.... )

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 27, 2016 2:21 PM in response to JohnniHansen
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    May 27, 2016 2:21 PM in response to JohnniHansen

    iCloud Drive - as shown in your screenshot  - is not a backup.  It is just a central storage that you can access from all devices and will look the same on all your devices.  Did you move or copy photos to this folder? Are there photos in the folder "Preview"?

     

    If you are using iCloud Photo Library, you will not see the photos from your library  on iCloud Drive. That are different iCloud services.

     

    If you delete a photo in Photos and are syncing with iCloud Photo Library, the photo will be deleted from iCloud as well. It will be kept in the Recently Deleted album, where you can recover it for a month, but after a month it will be automatically terminally deleted. Since you deleted the photos in March the 30 days where you could recover from the Recently Deleted album are up and the photos gone.

     

    iCloud Photo Library is not a backup for your Photos Library. you need to keep a local backup with Time Machine as well, if you want to be able to recover deleted photos.

  • by JohnniHansen,

    JohnniHansen JohnniHansen May 27, 2016 2:46 PM in response to léonie
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    May 27, 2016 2:46 PM in response to léonie

    I never put any photos in the folder. I think I have the basic iCloud services, although I pay for extra storage.

     

    I get that now I deleted somethings after 30 days they are gone gone gone.


    How do I get photos off my phone and just keep in the iCloud library or in my albums on my computer.  I know all photos saves everything ( if you don't hit delete as I did)

     

    I am planning a big trip and want space on my phone.


    Thanks for all your help.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 27, 2016 2:55 PM in response to JohnniHansen
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    May 27, 2016 2:55 PM in response to JohnniHansen

    If you use iCloud Photo Library you can not delete photos from one device - all changes made to any device (additions, deletions or edits) are made to all devices - for devices with limited storage you use optimized photos on that device

     

    LN